Candido Gonçalves and Shander De Vries continue to butt heads ont he outer table, with Dutchman De Vries coming away the victor from this last battle.
In the hand Gonçalves made it 115,000 to play and De Vries called,then both players checked the flop. The turn was the , Gonçalves bet 105,000 and De Vries snap-called.
The river was the , which prompted a check from Gonçalves, a very quick bet of 150,000 from De Vries and an even quicker fold from his opponent.
Up on the feature table (thank you to the conglomerate of poker media representatives who helped us piece it all together from the extremely sketchy view we get of the action here in the press room), Giuseppe Pantaleo has snatched back the chip lead from Kent Lundmark.
Three players were involved in the pot and they all checked the flop. The turn was the and Luis Rufas bet. Georgios Skotadis folded, but Pantaleo raised to 360,000. Rufas flat-called.
The river was the and Rufas check-called 880,000, only for Pantaleo to show the for the straight flush. Rufas apparently said that he had the .
It looked as though Konstantin Puchkov had opened for 200,000 and Luis Rufas had made it 570,000 preflop, but by the time Puchkov went all in and Rufas called (sorry, it really is incredibly hard to work out what's going on up there on the TV table) they were looking at a flop.
Rufas: for top pair and a flush draw
Puchkov: for an overpair
Turn: , suddenly putting Rufas in the lead with two pair.
River: Boom! making Puchkov a set of aces and the winning hand.
We thought for a while that Rufas was out, but it turned out that he had change - he'd covered Puchkov by just 10,000. The 10,000 went in the next hand, Giuseppe Pantaleo raised which successfully got rid of everyone else, and they were on their backs for Rufas' tournament life.
Rufas:
Pantaleo:
Board:
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Jesus Cortes Lizano opened up the action with a raise to 115,000 and Candido Goncalves called in the Small Blind. Shander De Vries folded in the Big Blind and the two of them saw a flop together.
The flop was and Lizano checked and Goncalves bet 200,000. Lizano then check raised all-in.
"Count!" Shouted Goncalves as he rose to his feet and went for a little walk about.
"950,000." The Dealer told Goncalves.
"Call!" Shouted Goncalves and slammed his cards onto the table - .
Lizano turned over .
It seemed we were destined for a split pot.
The turn was the and then the river was and the crowd went wild. Lizano had made a straight to take a million chips from Goncalves and put him right back into the race.
Shander De Vries opened on the cut off to 120,000. Giuseppe Pantaleo folded in the small blind and Francesco Notaro open shoved from the Big Blind for 1.6 millions and De Vries instantly called.
De Vries:
Notaro:
The board ran out kindly for De Vries and not so kindly for Notaro - .
Shander De Vries now has ~3.5 million chips and Notaro has been left with the shortest stack on the table.
A couple of hands after Francesco Notaro was crippled when his could not outrace the pocket queens of Shander De Vries, he doubled up through Georgios Skotadis.
Notaro open-shoved for 303,000 and found a caller in Skotadis, could this be our final elimination of the day?
Notaro:
Skotadis:
The flop missed both players but the on the turn meant Skotadis could his a king or a jack to win. It was not to be though, as the showed up on the river to double up Notaro, who with blinds and antes, now has 726,000
flop. The turn was the 
, Gonçalves bet 105,000 and De Vries snap-called.
, which prompted a check from Gonçalves, a very quick bet of 150,000 from De Vries and an even quicker fold from his opponent.
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flop. The turn was the 
and Luis Rufas bet. Georgios Skotadis folded, but Pantaleo raised to 360,000. Rufas flat-called.
and Rufas check-called 880,000, only for Pantaleo to show the 
for the straight flush. Rufas apparently said that he had the 
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flop.
for top pair and a flush draw
for an overpair
, suddenly putting Rufas in the lead with two pair.
making Puchkov a set of aces and the winning hand.
and Lizano checked and Goncalves bet 200,000. Lizano then check raised all-in.
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flop missed both players but the 
on the turn meant Skotadis could his a king or a jack to win. It was not to be though, as the